Following the metric I established for Devo I thought it prudent to apply the same to the very first Listening Post artist and see how they fare. (Seriously, with my newborn son still in the hospital, I’ve got nothing to do….) The Joshua Tree: A+ (100)Achtung Baby: A+ (100)The Unforgettable Continue Reading
U2
Listening Post: U2 – No Line on the Horizon
The very first Listening Post finally concludes with a new one from the band that started it all. U2 – No Line on the Horizon – 2009 (iTunes – Amazon) I started the Listening Post because I realized that, while I knew all of U2’s singles I didn’t really know Continue Reading
Listening Post: U2 Wrap up
So, thanks for sticking around, those of you that did. I hope I did it justice. It was a really interesting experience, rolling out records by a band that I had listened to but never really listened to.I tried to add video to the posts but, as you get later Continue Reading
listening Post: U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
And so we reach the end of the U2 listening retrospective. . U2 – How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb – 2004 The more I played this album the more I felt like turning the volume up, up, UP. This is a crunchy album. It rocks and pounds and you Continue Reading
listening Post: U2 All That You Can’t Leave Behind
Almost at the end of the U2 retrospective…. U2 – All That You Can’t Leave Behind – 2000 (buy it) U2 crashes into it’s THIRD DECADE of releasing music with this cd. Think about that. Their first four major releases were on vinyl. They have been making (somewhat) relevant music Continue Reading
listening Post: U2 Pop
The retrospective continues… U2 – Pop – 1997 (Buy it…if you dare) In 1982, two years after their monster hit, The Game, Queen, following the logic that “If something worked on one song, might as well devote a whole album to it, took their cue from the success of “Another Continue Reading
Listening Post: U2 Zooropa
Like most people, I imagine, I am very well versed in the well known songs of U2. How could I not be? During the 80s they were ubiquitous. U2 and R.E.M. (possibly the subject of a later listening post) came out at the same time, have lasted the same amount Continue Reading
listening Post: U2 Achtung Baby
Like most people, I imagine, I am very well versed in the well known songs of U2. How could I not be? During the 80s they were ubiquitous. U2 and R.E.M. (possibly the subject of a later listening post) came out at the same time, have lasted the same amount Continue Reading
listening Post: U2 The Joshua Tree
Like most people, I imagine, I am very well versed in the well known songs of U2. How could I not be? During the 80s they were ubiquitous. U2 and R.E.M. (possibly the subject of a later listening post) came out at the same time, have lasted the same amount Continue Reading
listening Post: U2 The Unforgettable Fire
Like most people, I imagine, I am very well versed in the well known songs of U2. How could I not be? During the 80s they were ubiquitous. U2 and R.E.M. (possibly the subject of a later listening post) came out at the same time, have lasted the same amount Continue Reading